NOVETTA NEXUSThreat Research

This report includes key findings, background of the Operation SMN effort and its intended goals, some preliminary data on its impact, analysis of campaign targets, operational practices of Axiom as well as some strategic analysis of potential motivations and groups behind the tasking of Axiom actors.

Bird’s Eye View is a new monthly executive summary report generated by Novetta’s Threat Research Group to provide a high-level summary of recent noteworthy cyber security events. This first edition will cover recent reporting on three cyber espionage campaigns.

This reverse engineering report outlines the capabilities of newer versions of Winnti that were observed during Operation SMN, including details on the malware’s start-up sequence, basic capabilities, and C2 communication protocol.